Trolley 967

A Sainsbury's trolley captured in the High Street.

The basket had been bashed about a bit and there were bits of wire sticking out, so I though it best to return the trolley to the dump at the back of the car park at Kiln Lane. A dump which had been tidied up and shrunk a bit since I last visited - and a dump where I did not notice any visibly damaged trolleys. Maybe more reserve stock than dump?

Perhaps all part of tidying up the perimeter last year. Or was it earlier this year?

Some purple dwarf cyclamen were already in flower in the passage leading to the footbridge over the railway. To think that they were quite the exotic when my father started growing them under the two nut trees flanking our front drive when I was a child. A 1950's house which meant that the front drive still had wooden gates, quite possibly made on the spot, like the kitchen cupboards. With gates on our present estate being more an occasional marker of pretensions than anything else.

A pick-me-up on the way home, what I took to be a framed version of an advertising poster from the Tate Gallery. With Dod Proctor having been an artist of the Newlyn crowd, to be found at reference 2. From where I learn that the painting was something of a sensation at the time and was bought for the nation by the 'Daily Mail' in 1927. I wonder if the original is still hanging up?

Alive and well at reference 3, but neither it nor the rather different painting snapped above are presently on display. I dare say I could arrange to see them, but will I get around to it?

The present reproduction, ugly framing apart, did not do very well in our dining room. Perhaps I will have a go at adjusting the frame myself - not much more than cropping the board a bit with a Stanley knife - an outing for my rarely used carpenter's straight edge - and then we will see.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/09/trolleys-965-and-966.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dod_Procter. '... The model for the work was a Newlyn fisherman's 16-year-old daughter, Cissie Barnes, who also modelled, every day for five weeks, for Procter's best known work, Morning...'. For the avoidance of doubt, I should say that Dod was a married lady.

Reference 3: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dod-procter-1801.

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